The Unofficial IEEE Brainbuster Gamebook: Mental Workouts for the Technically Inclined

Trying to keep those mental muscles in shape? Search no further! Here’s a book with hours and hours of IQ-busting fun to challenge your brain strength and test the very depths of your gumption. These innovative, witty, and utterly outrageous brainbusters engage your reasoning power while honing your problem-solving skills. Beginning with easier puzzles, then getting progressively more difficult, this tantalizing collection will increase brain power with each puzzle you conquer. Need help? Don’t worry—we’ve added a special "Solutions" section that gives a detailed answer to each brainbuster. This ingenious volume offers more than 180 puzzlers

Women and the Law in the Roman Empire - A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood

It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to the end of the western Roman Empire (476 CE), incorporating both pagan and Christian eras, and explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.

Emperors and Gladiators

Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace.

To Caesar What is Caesar's - Tribute, Taxes and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 BC - 70 AD)

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive study of taxation in Jewish Palestine in the Early Roman period, from the conquest of the Jewish state by Pompey in 63 B.C.E. to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Rather than constructing theoretical models of the economic conditions of Palestine, this study is based on a historical analysis of the extant sources. Judea s systems of taxation depended on the politics of its relationship with Rome and its magistrates. This work clarifies the problem of taxation and the role that economic factors might have played both in the rise of early Christianity and in the Revolt of 66 C.E.

Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World

It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women, and slaves, given that most of the surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An international collection of expert contributors go beyond the usual canon of literary texts and assess a vast range of evidence-inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture, and the law, as well as Christian and dream-interpretation literature. Topics covered include: child exposure and abandonment; children in imperial propaganda, reconstructing lower-class families, gender, burial, and status; epitaphs and funerary monuments; adoption and late parenthood.